A document is prepared for the Advisory Council meeting. If the concept is approved, the document is published on our Web site. This gives researchers a “heads-up” on potential future funding opportunities. Not all concepts are developed into formal initiatives, such as program announcements or requests for applications. If a concept is developed into an official initiative, it will be published in the NIH Guide.

Note: Details of the final initiative may differ from the original concept proposal.

Concepts Approved by Our Advisory Council

Concepts under consideration to be developed into requests for applications, program announcements, or requests for proposals.​​​​​​​

Discovery and Biological Signatures of Diet-Derived Microbial MetabolitesThis initiative seeks to characterize the compounds produced by microbial metabolism of dietary phytochemicals, identify the commensal bacteria responsible for their production, establish the biological signatures that define their interaction with a biological system, and coordinate and oversee the sharing of relevant omic data.

Contribution of Sleep Disturbances to Chronic Pain InitiativeThe purpose of the proposed initiative is to advance NCCIH interests to study the contribution of sleep disturbances to chronic pain, especially how sleep disturbances impact pain, and to determine whether alleviating sleep disturbances reduces or prevents development of chronic pain.